Chapter 16. Overview of the Application

In This Chapter

• What Is Test-Driven Development?

• Why Do Test-Driven Development?

• The KISS and YAGNI Principles

• Waterfall Versus Evolutionary Design

• TDD Tests Are Not Unit Tests

• Tests Flow from User Stories

• Unit Testing Frameworks

• Bibliography of Test-Driven Development

In the following five chapters, we build the beginnings of a real-world ASP.NET MVC application—we build a simple blog application. I was motivated to build the blog application to satisfy two goals.

First, I want to demonstrate how you can use the features of the ASP.NET MVC framework in the context of building a real-world application. In the previous chapters of this book, we focused on particular features ...

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